KR20030041451A - Multimedia electronic bulletin board system and operation method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A multimedia electronic notice board system and a method for managing the same are provided to supply a multimedia electronic notice board service for a user of a general telephone connected to a PSTN(Public Switched Telephone Network) without a signal converter such as a modem and a multimedia production program. CONSTITUTION: A public network interwork server(31) supports an interwork function of a WAN environment such as the Internet with the telephone(11). A notice board server(50) supplies a notice board site capable of registering and reading a multimedia matter on the WAN environment, registers, and stores a corresponding notice matter in a notice board DB(60) in accordance with a notice matter registration request through a corresponding contents selection of the notice board site. The notice board server(50) reads a corresponding notice matter stored in the notice board DB(60) in accordance with a notice matter reading request through a corresponding contents selection. A conversion server(40) converts a notice matter registration-requested through the telephone(11) into a format supported by the notice board server(50) and transmits the converted notice matter to the notice board server(50). If a notice matter reading-requested through the telephone(11) is transmitted from the notice board server(50), the conversion server(40) converts the notice matter into a format supported by the telephone(11), and transmits the converted notice matter to the telephone(11).

Description

MULTIMEDIA ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF

The present invention relates to a multimedia electronic bulletin board system and a method of operating the same, and more particularly, a user through a general telephone connected to a public telephone network (PSTN) in an environment in which a signal conversion device such as a modem and a multimedia playback program are not installed. The present invention relates to a multimedia electronic bulletin board system and a method of operating the same.

In general, an electronic bulletin board system refers to a message function that connects a host computer and a terminal device through a communication network, and provides information exchange to an unspecified number of parties between terminals, for example, a bulletin board service provided at various sites on the Internet. would.

To register a bulletin board electronic document in such an electronic bulletin board system, run a web browser installed on the computer, access the Internet, enter a specific URL to access the web server where the corresponding web site is located, and provide a hypermedia document editor provided by the web server. Create a bulletin board electronic document using a document editor such as (HTML Editor) and register it on a web server.

If you want to read the bulletin board electronic document, you have to access the web server through the same path as the above registration procedure. Text and video posts can be viewed through the document writer provided by the web server, and voice and audio / video (including video) ) The post can be viewed through the automatic execution of a computer linking program according to the writing format (file extension) of the post.

In the above description, a registration and reading process using a computer in a wired Internet environment has been described. However, in the case of using an information terminal capable of wireless Internet access such as a mobile communication terminal, the same service can be used through a dedicated program.

However, the electronic bulletin board system according to the prior art as described above is provided only to the subscribers connected to the public telephone network (PSTN) in order to use the service, but only with a computer equipped with a signal conversion device such as a modem or a dedicated terminal. There was a problem available.

The present invention has been proposed to solve such a conventional problem, and its purpose is to provide a multimedia electronic device to a user of a general telephone connected to a public telephone network in an environment in which a signal conversion device such as a modem and a multimedia playback program are not installed. The present invention provides a multimedia electronic bulletin board system capable of providing bulletin board services.

Another object of the present invention is to maximize the quality of a multimedia electronic bulletin board service provided to a user of a general telephone connected to a public telephone network by providing an efficient operation method for the multimedia electronic bulletin board system.

As one aspect of the present invention for realizing the above object, the multimedia bulletin board system is a public network interworking server that supports the interworking function of the WAN environment, such as the Internet and the phone, and registration and viewing of multimedia posts in the WAN environment. Provides a bulletin board site available, and registers and saves the post in the bulletin board DB according to the post registration request through the selection of the corresponding content of the bulletin board site, or reads the corresponding post stored in the bulletin board DB according to the request for viewing the post through the selection of the corresponding content The bulletin board server and the posts requested to be registered through the phone are converted into a format supported by the bulletin board server and transmitted to the bulletin board server, and when the post requested through the phone is sent from the bulletin board server, the phone Supported by It includes a conversion server to convert the format to the phone.

In another aspect of the present invention, an operating method of a multimedia electronic bulletin board system includes: an eleventh step of transmitting a service request signal to a bulletin board server by a conversion server when a predetermined telephone number is dialed by a telephone to form a call path; A 12th step in which the server reads the content guide voice data stored in the bulletin board DB in response to the service request signal and transmits the content guide voice data to the conversion server, and the conversion server transmits the received content guide voice data through the call path through the telephone line. A thirteenth step of providing a message, and a conversion step of the post conversion request signal to the bulletin board server when the post registration content is selected by the telephone, and the bulletin board server in response to the post registration request signal. Voice of registration guide stored in the bulletin board DB A fifteenth step of reading the data from the phone and transmitting the received registration guide voice data to the phone through the communication path; And a seventeenth step in which the bulletin board server registers and stores the input voice post data in the bulletin board DB.

In still another aspect of the present invention, a method for operating a multimedia bulletin board system includes: a twenty-first step of transferring a service request signal to a bulletin board server by a conversion server when a telephone number contracted by a telephone is dialed to form a call path; A twenty-second step in which a bulletin board server reads content guide voice data stored in a bulletin board DB in response to the service request signal, and transmits the content guide voice data to the conversion server; and the conversion server transmits the received content guide voice data through the call path. A twenty-third step of providing to a telephone, a twenty-fourth step of transmitting a post-viewing request signal to the bulletin board server when the post-viewing content is selected by the telephone, and the bulletin board server responding to the post-viewing request signal Post stored in the bulletin board DB A twenty-sixth step of generating post guide data by collecting information of the information; and a twenty-sixth step of synthesizing the post guide data transmitted from the bulletin board server into voice information and transmitting the synthesized voice information to the telephone through the call path; Step 27, the conversion server requests the bulletin board server to view the post when a specific post is selected through the phone; and the bulletin board server reads the corresponding post requested from the posts stored in the bulletin board DB. And a twenty-seventh step of transmitting, by the conversion server, grasping the data form of the corresponding post, converting it into a format supported by the phone, and providing the phone to the phone through the call path.

1 is a block diagram of a multimedia electronic bulletin board system according to the present invention,

2 is a flowchart illustrating a system operating method for a personal computer (PC) or mobile communication terminal user in a multimedia electronic bulletin board system according to the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a system operating method for a telephone user in a multimedia electronic bulletin board system according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

11 telephone 13 personal computer (PC)

15: mobile communication terminal 21: public telephone network (PSTN)

23: wired communication network 25: wireless communication network

31: public network interworking server 33: wired network server

34: gateway 35: wireless network server

40: conversion server 41: information input unit

43: speech synthesizer 45: speech extractor

47: format conversion unit 50: bulletin board server

51: Post Register 53: Post Reader

55: application 60: bulletin board DB

There may be a plurality of embodiments of the present invention. Hereinafter, preferred embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. This embodiment allows for a better understanding of the objects, features and advantages of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a multimedia electronic bulletin board system according to the present invention.

The public network interworking server 31 supports an interworking function between the telephone 11 connected to the public telephone network 21 and the conversion server 40 in a WAN environment such as the Internet.

The wired network server 33 supports an interworking function between the personal computer 13 connected to the wired communication network 23 and the conversion server 40.

The wireless network server 35 supports an interworking function between the mobile communication terminal 15 and the conversion server 40 connected to the wireless communication network 25.

The bulletin board server 50 registers and stores the post in the bulletin board DB 60 in response to a post registration request through selecting the corresponding content of the user who uses the phone 11, the personal computer 13, and the mobile communication terminal 15. In response to a request for viewing a post through selecting a corresponding content of the user, the corresponding post stored in the bulletin board DB 60 is read and provided to the corresponding user.

The conversion server 40 converts a post requested to be registered through the phone 11, the personal computer 13, and the mobile communication terminal 15 into a format supported by the bulletin board server 50, and transmits the post. (11) Through the personal computer 13 and the mobile communication terminal 15, the post requested to be read is converted into a format supported by each terminal, and delivered to be read.

Looking at the detailed configuration of the bulletin board server 50, the application 55 that provides a multimedia bulletin board function that can be selected content, such as a post registration application and viewing application, and the post requested to register from the conversion server 40 through the bulletin board function The post registration unit 51 that registers and stores the bulletin in the bulletin board DB 60 and the post requested to be read from the conversion server 40 through the bulletin board function among the posts registered and stored in the bulletin board DB 60. ) Consists of a post reading unit 53 provided.

Looking at the detailed configuration of the conversion server 40, the information input unit 41 for supporting the content selection and post input function through the phone 11, the content guide information and post registration guide information and registration stored in the bulletin board DB (60) Speech synthesizer 43 for synthesizing the text information of the posted posts into voice information, and a voice extractor for extracting and providing voice information from voice / video (including video) information of posts stored in the bulletin board DB 60 ( 45 and a format converter 47 for converting and providing multimedia post data transmitted between the terminals 11, 13, and 15 and the bulletin board server 50 into a format supported by the transmitter.

Hereinafter, the multimedia electronic bulletin board service process provided by the multimedia electronic bulletin board system according to the present invention configured as described above will be described.

2A is a flowchart illustrating a post registration service process in a system operating method for a personal computer or a mobile communication terminal user.

When the user of the personal computer 13 connects to the bulletin board server 50 by operating a web browser installed on the personal computer 13 and inputting a specific URL, the bulletin board server 50 executes the application 55. In operation S201, a multimedia bulletin board function capable of selecting contents such as a post registration request and a read request is provided.

At this time, the initial screen is provided with a content guide screen, when the user selects a post registration content in accordance with the normal bulletin board use procedures, the post registration unit 51 provides a post registration guide screen to select the data type of the post to register. (S202 to S203).

When the user selects one of voice, text, voice / video, and video post registration menus and uploads the corresponding post data, the post register 51 registers and stores the uploaded post data in the bulletin board DB 60, and processes the result. It provides a post registration information guide screen to know the registration information (S211 to S217).

During the post registration process, the format conversion unit 47 of the conversion server 40 converts the multimedia post data transmitted between the terminals 11, 13, and 15 and the bulletin board server 50 into a format supported by the sender. Provide converted.

In the above description, the registration process using a computer in a wired Internet environment has been described. However, in the case of using an information terminal capable of wireless Internet access such as a mobile communication terminal, the same service can be used through a dedicated program. At this time, the wireless network server 35 converts the post data provided by the bulletin board server 50 according to a wireless environment by applying a known data conversion technique to the mobile communication terminal 15 through the wireless communication network 25. It performs the function.

2B is a flowchart illustrating a post browsing service process in a system operating method for a personal computer or a mobile communication terminal user.

When the user of the personal computer 13 accesses the bulletin board server 50 through the same path as the above registration procedure and selects the content of the post viewing on the content guide screen which is the initial screen, the post reading unit 53 is the bulletin board DB 60. It provides a post guide screen to read the post information from the selected posts can be selected (S221).

When the user selects a specific post through the post guide screen, the post reading unit 53 provides the post to each terminal (11, 13, 15) in accordance with the data type of the post (S222 ~ S227).

The format conversion unit 47 of the conversion server 40 converts the multimedia post data transmitted between each of the terminals 11, 13, and 15 and the bulletin board server 50 in a format supported by the sender. Provide converted.

In the above description, a reading process using a computer in a wired Internet environment has been described. However, in the case of using an information terminal capable of wireless Internet access such as a mobile communication terminal, the same service may be used through a dedicated program. At this time, the wireless network server 35 performs a function of applying the known data conversion technology to the bulletin board server 50 after converting the post data provided by the mobile communication terminal 15 in accordance with the wired environment.

3A is a flowchart illustrating a post registration service process in a system operating method for a telephone user.

When the user of the telephone 11 dials a predetermined telephone number and a call path is formed with the public network interworking server 31, the public network interworking server 31 is connected to the public telephone network 21 with the telephone 11 and the Internet. It supports the interworking function with the conversion server 40 in the WAN environment (S301).

When the information input unit 41 of the conversion server 40 transmits the service request signal of the public network interworking server 31 to the bulletin board server 50, the application 55 reads the content guide voice data stored in the bulletin board DB 60. The information input unit 41 provides the received content guide voice data to the user of the telephone 11 through the public network interworking server 31 (S302).

Then, after the user of the telephone 11 listens to the content guidance voice provided by the information input unit 41, the user selects one of the menus of the post viewing and the post registration. The information input unit 41 is a public network interworking server ( The menu selection result of the user is determined based on the information transmitted from 31) (S303).

Here, the input method via the telephone 11 and the reading method by the information input unit 41 can be realized by various examples provided they are compatible with each other. If the information input unit 41 has a voice recognition function, it is possible to input content selection information by voice through the phone 11, and if the ARS (Auto Response System) technology is applied to the information input unit 41, the user Content selection information may be input as a tone signal using a dial button.

When the user selects the post registration content, the information input unit 41 transmits a post registration request signal to the bulletin board server 50, and the application 55 reads the registration guide voice data stored in the bulletin board DB 60 to convert the server. 40, the information input unit 41 provides the received registration guide voice data to the user of the telephone 11 via the public network interworking server 31 (S311).

When the user inputs a voice to be registered in the bulletin board by using the telephone 11, the post registration unit 51 registers and stores the input voice post data in the bulletin board DB 60 (S312 to S313).

Then, the post registration unit 51 generates post registration information guide data that can know the processing result and transmits it to the conversion server 40, the speech synthesis unit 43 voices the guide data transmitted from the post registration unit 51 voice The synthesized information is output to the public network interworking server 31, and the public network interworking server 31 transmits the transmitted post registration information guide voice to the phone 11 (S314).

3B is a flowchart illustrating a post browsing service process in a system operating method for a telephone user.

After the user of the telephone 11 listens to the content guidance voice provided through the same path as the above registration procedure and selects the post viewing content, the information input unit 41 of the conversion server 40 sends a read service request signal to the bulletin board server. The application program 55 collects information such as a list, a title, a publisher, and the like of posts stored in the bulletin board DB 60 to generate post guide data.

The post guide data generated by the bulletin board server 50 is transmitted to the voice synthesizer 43 of the conversion server 40, and synthesized into voice information by the voice synthesizer 43, and through the public network interworking server 31. It is delivered to 11 (S321).

Then, after the user of the telephone 11 listens to the post guide voice provided by the information input unit 41, the user selects a post he or she wants to read, and the information input unit 41 is transmitted from the public network interworking server 31. The post selected by the user is determined based on the information (S322).

The information input unit 41 determining the post selected by the user requests to view the post to the bulletin board server 50, and the application 55 reads the post stored in the bulletin board DB 60 to convert the server 40. Transfer to, the conversion server 40 grasps the data form of the post (S323).

Here, when the post selected by the user is a voice post, the post is provided through the same path as the guide voice transmission procedure. When the post selected by the user is a text post, the voice synthesizer 43 operates to operate the text. After synthesizing the voice to the public network interworking server 31, and the post selected by the user is a voice / video (video) post, the voice extraction unit 45 operates to only the voice information from the voice / video data Extract it and transmit it to the public network interworking server 31 (S324, S325).

Then, the public network interworking server 31 provides the telephone 11 with the post voice information transmitted from the conversion server 40. In other words, even if the post has any form, the post data provided to the phone 11 is provided by voice (S326).

In the above description, but limited to one embodiment of the present invention, it is obvious that the technology of the present invention can be easily modified by those skilled in the art. Such modified embodiments should be included in the technical spirit described in the claims of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention has an effect of providing a multimedia electronic bulletin board service to a user of a general telephone connected to a public telephone network in an environment in which a signal conversion device such as a modem and a multimedia playback program are not installed.

Claims (8)

A system for providing a multimedia bulletin board service in a WAN environment such as the Internet through a telephone connected to a public telephone network, Public network interworking server that supports interworking function with WAN environment such as Internet and the phone, Provides a bulletin board site capable of registering and reading multimedia posts in the WAN environment, and registering and storing the post in the bulletin board DB or requesting to view the post through selecting the content according to a post registration request through the corresponding content selection of the bulletin board site. According to the bulletin board server that reads the post stored in the bulletin board DB, The post requested to be registered through the phone is converted into a format supported by the bulletin board server and transmitted to the bulletin board server, and when the post requested to be read through the phone is transmitted from the bulletin board server, it is converted into a format supported by the phone. Multimedia electronic bulletin board system including a conversion server for transmitting to the phone. According to claim 1, wherein the bulletin board server An application that provides a multimedia bulletin board function for selecting contents such as a post registration application and a viewing application, A post registration unit for registering and storing a post requested from the conversion server through the bulletin board DB in the bulletin board DB; And a post reading unit that reads a post requested to be read from the conversion server through a bulletin board function among posts registered and stored in the bulletin board DB and provides the post to the conversion server. The method of claim 1, wherein the conversion server An information input unit supporting content selection and post input function through the phone; A voice synthesizer for synthesizing and providing content guide information, post registration guide information, and text information of a registered post into voice information stored in the bulletin board DB; A voice extractor for extracting and providing voice information from voice / video information of a post stored in the bulletin board DB; And a format conversion unit for converting the multimedia post data transmitted between the telephone and the bulletin board server into a format supported by the transmitter. A bulletin board server that provides a bulletin board site that can register and view multimedia posts in a WAN environment, and a conversion that converts and provides multimedia post data transmitted between a telephone connected to a public telephone network and the bulletin board server to a format supported by a sender. In the operating method of a multimedia electronic bulletin board system comprising a server, An eleventh step of transmitting, by the conversion server, a service request signal to the bulletin board server when the telephone number contracted by the telephone is dialed to form a call path; A 12th step in which the bulletin board server reads content guide voice data stored in the bulletin board DB and transmits it to the conversion server in response to the service request signal; A thirteenth step, wherein the conversion server provides the received content guide voice data to the phone through the call path; A 14th step in which the conversion server transmits a post registration request signal to the bulletin board server when the post registration content is selected by the telephone; A fifteenth step in which the bulletin board server reads the registration guide voice data stored in the bulletin board DB and transmits it to the conversion server in response to the post registration request signal; The conversion server provides the received registration guide voice data to the telephone via the call path; And a seventeenth step of registering and storing the input voice post data in the bulletin board DB when a voice is input from the telephone. The method of claim 4, wherein An eighteenth step of generating, by the bulletin board server, post registration information guide data indicating a processing result after the posting registration step, and transmitting the post registration information guide data to the conversion server; And a nineteenth step of the conversion server synthesizing the guide data transmitted from the bulletin board server into voice information and providing a post registration information guide voice to the telephone via the call path. A bulletin board server that provides a bulletin board site that can register and view multimedia posts in a WAN environment, and a conversion that converts multimedia post data transmitted between a telephone connected to a public telephone network and the bulletin board server into a format supported by a sender. In the operating method of a multimedia electronic bulletin board system comprising a server, A twenty-first step of transmitting, by the conversion server, a service request signal to the bulletin board server when the telephone number contracted by the telephone is dialed to form a call path; A twenty-second step of the bulletin board server reading content guide voice data stored in the bulletin board DB in response to the service request signal and transmitting the read-out voice data to the conversion server; A twenty-third step, wherein the conversion server provides the received content guide voice data to the phone via the call path; A twenty-fourth step of transmitting the post-view request signal to the bulletin board server when the post-viewing content is selected by the telephone; A twenty-fifth step in which the bulletin board server collects information of the posts stored in the bulletin board DB in response to the post view request signal and generates post guide data; A twenty-sixth step of synthesizing the post guide data transmitted from the bulletin board server into voice information and transmitting the synthesized voice information to the telephone through the call path; In step 27, when the specific post is selected through the phone, the conversion server requests the bulletin board server to view the post; Step 28, the bulletin board server reading the corresponding post requested from the post stored in the bulletin board DB and transmitting it to the conversion server; And a twenty-ninth step, wherein the conversion server grasps the data form of the corresponding post, converts the data form into a format supported by the telephone, and provides the converted bulletin to the telephone through the call path. The method of claim 6, In the twenty-ninth step, the conversion server synthesizes the text data into voice after providing the text data when the read-selected post is a text post, and provides the voice / video when the selected post is a voice / video post. And extracting only voice information from data and providing the same to the telephone. The method according to claim 4 or 6, The conversion server performing the step 14 or step 24 reads the selection result of the post registration content or the post reading content by the phone based on the tone signal transmitted from the phone. Operating method.